HAVANA, Oct. 14th Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, accompanied by the Minister of Tourism, Manuel Marrero, inaugurated on Saturday the Iberostar Grand Packard luxury hotel on the Paseo del Prado, which overlooks the Malecon in Havana and is designed for “high standard” tourists , according to local media.
HAVANA, Oct. 12 Cuban agriculture authorities on Thursday said the goal of this current season is to harvest over 34,000 tons of tobacco, despite Hurricane Michael devastating the crop in the western Pinar del Rio province. Read more
HAVANA, Oct. 12 (DDC) The European Union (EU) and the Government of Cuba “extensively” addressed issues such as legal guarantees in criminal proceedings during the fourth session of their dialogue on human rights, the European External Action Service reported on Wednesday ( SEAE), reported EFE.
HAVANA, Oct. 11th On Thursday, the Getty announced the recipients of its 2018 Keeping It Modern grants, which provide conservation planning funds to significant 20th century architectural landmarks, internationally, $1.7 million in all this year.
HAVANA, Oct. 10. Cuba seeks to boost its tourism industry and bet big on foreign investment. For this reason, high officials of the Island traveled to Mexico in recent days to sell the Caribbean destination as a reliable business area and open to foreign capital.
HAVANA, Oct. 10 (AFP) The president of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel, debuted on Wednesday on Twitter with a message of continuity, but confirming a change in style with respect to his predecessors Fidel and Raúl Castro.
HAVANA, Oct. 9 (PL) British Culture Week in Cuba, from October 12 to 27, will demonstrate the growth of relations between the two countries, said the Ambassador of the United Kingdom Antony Stokes.
HAVANA, Oct. 8th (PL) The National General Staff of the Civil Defense of Cuba (Emndc) has established on Monday the Emergency Information Phase for the western provinces of the island, due to the danger represented by the rains associated to tropical storm Michael. Read more
HAVANA, Oct. 8th Cuba tour operators began to notice a curious thing in the dead of summer this year. Bookings to the island began to increase month over month, following a drastic slump.
HAVANA, Oct. 7 New tax regulations for Cuba’s budding private sector aim to improve transparency and curb tax evasion, according to officials.
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HAVANA, Oct. 7th . -Digital application Wise Pocket, developed by the Cuban University of Oriente and the Vrije Universiteit of Brussels, won the prize “Digital for Development” for the most promising innovative idea in the “IStartup” category.
HAVANA, Oct. 6th (EFE) Almost 27,000 gallons of oil spilled on Thursday in the bay of Matanzas, Cuba, 20 miles from one of the island’s most touristic spots, Varadero.
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HAVANA, Oct. 4th EFE) .- Four Cuban state entities signed memorandums of understanding with Google on Internet content, reported on Thursday state media of the island, which is immersed in a process of computerization to overcome its technological backwardness. Read more
HAVANA, Oct. 4th Opening late last month at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, El imagen sin limites. Exposición antológica de fotografía cubana (The Image Without Limits: An Anthology Exhibition of Cuban Photography) takes an expansive view of photography on the island, from the 19th century to 2018.
HAVANA, Oct. 4th – At the end of August, almost 6 million users with Internet access in Cuba and nearly 2 million connected from Nauta’s permanent accounts were registered, Communications Vice Minister Wilfredo González Vidal said today. Read more
HAVANA, Oct. 3th American Airlines said Tuesday that it plans to begin flying a Miami-Santiago de Cuba route next year, opening up a new market to U.S. air travelers to the island’s second largest city.
HAVANA,Oct 2th (PL) Cuba will build bioelectric plant, associated to a sugar factory and an eolian park of 50 MW through a credit given by India, affirmed here the Cuban minister of Energy and Mines, Raul Garcia Barreiro.
HAVANA, Oct. 1th American Airlines plans to end its flight from Charlotte to Havana, Cuba, according to filings with the U.S. Department of Transportation. In 2016, when the Obama administration relaxed travel restrictions for U.S. citizens going to Cuba, Charlotte was one of ten cities selected by DOT to receive a route to Havana.
HAVANA, 1. Oct. Dalia gets up very early every morning to cook several kilograms of fish hash and more than five pounds of rice. In the narrowness of her apartment in Centro Habana, she prepares two pots of food for the twenty cats that live with her and the almost forty that await in the playground “La Maestranza” in Old Havana. Read more
HAVANA, September 29 Authorities in Havana have drastically reduced the vehicles responsible for collecting solid waste on city streets, claiming that their cost is very high and that the US embargo hinders the importation of spare parts.
HAVANA, Sept. 28th (Sputnik) Cuban President Miguel Díaz Canel visited Google’s New York office, where he met with the company’s top executives. The meeting, which has been highlighted by the Cuban state newspaper Granma, raised hopes of the acceleration of Internet development on the island.
HAVANA, Sept. 26th Cuban and United States research institutes announced Wednesday they were creating the first joint U.S.-Cuban biotech venture to be headquartered on the island to bring new cancer therapies to U.S. patients.
HAVANA, Sept. 25th Cuba is on the up, at least that’s the message according to the Gaviota Group. Gaviota represents international chains including Meliá Hotels International, Iberostar Hotels & Resorts, Blue Diamond Resorts, Valentin Hotels,
HAVANA, Sept 24th On November 24, Cuba will premiere at one of the most attended events in the world. This is Le Dîner en Blanc, considered the largest and most exclusive picnic on the planet.
HAVANA, sept. 24th Blondie has officially unveiled BLONDIE IN HAVANA, an historic cultural exchange set for March 14-18, 2019, in beautiful Havana.
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